Vladimir Motin sentenced in UK for manslaughter by gross negligence after failing to take action to prevent his ship crashing into an oil tanker
A Russian container ship captain has been jailed for six years after an explosive collision in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire killed a crew member.
Vladimir Motin, 59, was told by an Old Bailey judge that he had been a “serious accident waiting to happen” as he was jailed for manslaughter by gross negligence.
A court heard that Motin had been on sole watch duty and failed to take any action to prevent his ship, the Solong, crashing into a stationary oil tanker, the Stena Immaculate.
It caused an explosion and Mark Angelo Pernia, a 38-year-old Filipino national, died instantly in the resulting fire. His body was never recovered.
